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Don’t create friends and enemies, how many days we are here? When we go for any vacation, stay there in the seven star hotel, after few days, "Ahmedabad jana chahiye. Yaha ka traffic jam kahi nahi milta- - should go to Ahmedabad, the traffic Jam there you do not get anywhere else". LOL. See. We want to come home. And when we are coming home from the vacation, are we not eager to go home? Exactly the same way, here in this world, we are on a vacation. Enough! We have to go home. Prepare, happily. Leave this world. And if you have to leave this world - your hotel room may be very wonderful, but while going back we don’t carry the bed from there, "chalo le chalte hai – come-on, lets take it”, we have to leave it there. In the same manner be in this world to leave this world, not to live eternally in this world.

These two simple principles. So, ko vA vimukto viShaye viraktaH, what is that, “viShaye, kama viraktihi – indifference to worldly things and desires'? What is liberation? Liberation is, we are no more holding on to the worldly things.

Extracted from Swami Anubhavanandaji's talks on Prashnottari of Shankaracharya 1 of 3 ... See more

Before you were born, this world was functioning, while you are over here it is functioning, after you leave it will continue to function. So this world doesn't need you. It is you who needs the world (duniya ko apni zaroorat nahi hai, apne ko duniya ki zaroorat hai). Once this principle is understood, you will automatically be humble while interacting in this world. ... See more

One person came and asked me, 'Swamiji, I want to ask you something.' I said, "You stand there and talk. Don't come near me." He stood there. I said, “Before you ask me, I will ask you a question. Is your house near the railway track?" ‘Swamiji, we have never met before. Normally people ask, what is your name, where from have you come. But you are straightway asking whether my house is near the railway track!’ I said, "Don't counter question. Say yes or no.” ‘Yes.’ "Ha! Now. you go ahead." ‘But how did you know?’ I said, "You are talking as if you are talking on a dead phone from USA to Australia. You don't need to shout." But because he has been staying near the railway track, he cannot talk soft.

Similarly, when somebody is deaf, he thinks everybody is deaf. He will never talk softly. He has this illusion that people may not hear him. But others are not deaf! See how beautiful it is! Also, those who are blind, if a blind man touches another blind person he never thinks that he could also be blind. He imagines that he can see and, ‘Brother, can you help me cross this road?’ Now that blind will very clearly know that this fellow doesn't know that I am blind. But why will he tell? Then he will pull his hand, “O.k., you put your hand on my shoulder and I will tell you.' So, one blind man leading the other blind and both of them are going to the dogs! So this is how the incomplete knowledge is very, very dangerous. And you will see that when you listen a little bit here and there and you get something very great in your own life for the first time, immediately you want to tell others. ‘Come sit here. There are five great elements, you know. There are five Karmendriyas, five Gnyanendriyas, five Pranas, five Pancha Pranas.' "But why are you taking my Prana? Leave me alone!" This is how you know; it comes out as vomit because it is incomplete knowledge.

So friends, the knowledge which is gained through the limitations of the senses and the mind is a vitiated knowledge. It is not real knowledge. The real knowledge is what we all experience in deep sleep. And in this experience, we do not have any sense of otherness and therefore, all bliss.

When we include everyone in this world, we love everyone When we don't include anybody in this world, we can’t hate anybody. See friends therefore ato mama jagatsarvamathavā na ca kimcana (Ashtavakra Gita 2:2) (Therefore, either the whole world is mine or nothing is mine!) this is the foundation of all the great masters. Bhagavan Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita,

By our naked eye, we can see only a particular spectrum of light waves. Beyond that, light waves are, but we cannot see. Does that mean that they do not exist? See! So, all the knowledge that we get is only a limited knowledge.

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It is incomplete knowledge and an incomplete knowledge is dangerous than ignorance (not having knowledge). How? You have incomplete knowledge of cooking and then, ‘Swamiji is coming. I am going to prepare a new dish. Nobody has ever prepared it for Him.’ So it becomes an experiment. And they make that dish. ‘Swamiji, for the first time, I have made this.’ Now you can imagine my courage! It is with this courage only that I am moving in the whole world. See, I am ready for any challenge, come on! All this is because of incomplete knowledge.

Our old ladies, mothers, when they prepare food; they don't keep a book in their hand. They just ask you to put this and put that. O.k cover it. Open after 20 minutes. And then you watch TV etc.. Oh! 20 minutes. Open. Nothing has happened. ‘Mummy, I did exactly what you told but nothing has happened.’ "Tell me what you have done. Did you switch on the gas?” 'No!' See, this is incomplete knowledge. Similarly, we go and tell, let us do meditation. "Ha! Sit down. Now, when we sit for meditation, don't think anything.” ‘How is it possible?' "Try yaar. Don't you think, I think?" ‘Then why do you tell us not to think?' "Then what can I tell you!" This is the only way to keep you busy. And this is such an engagement that you can spend your whole life only on one sentence - Don’t think! You are booked for the whole life. See!

Avidyaa yaam antare vartamaanaa - Themselves living in the relative existence as if it is real. And, svayam dheeraah panditam manya maanaa starts thinking that I am wiser than the wisest. The person who thinks he is wise, in fact, he is otherwise! And what are the symptoms of an otherwise man? Taking the role of a wise, he wants to guide and advise everybody.